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Producing power from heat and cold
A thermoelectric generator simultaneously harvests radiative cooling and solar heating to generate electricity.
Tool promises to open air space quicker following space operations
The tool automates the delivery of real-time data about space operations.
Smart security tags promise to secure luggage and the border
Smart tags can link luggage to passengers.
Eliminating left-hand turns using an algorithm
A hybrid algorithm locates intersections that would potentially benefit from eliminated left-hand turns.
2021 grand prize winners of MPIF's Design Excellence Award Competition
Watch and learn about the grand prize winners from MPIF's 2021 Design Excellence Award Competition for conventional, metal injection molded and metal additive manufactured PM parts.
McCrometer insertion-style mag meters: A comparison
Here is what customers should know if they are interested in an insertion mag meter.
Watch: New system in future quantum internet promises untappable communication
Engineers from QuTech can use MDI QKD to ensure untappable communication.
How to measure negative pressure using a gauge pressure sensor
There are two types of pressure sensors used for negative pressure or vacuum pressure applications: gauge sensors or absolute pressure sensors.
DOE furnishes funds for fusion research
The funds support nine collaborative projects between DOE national laboratories and private industry aimed at overcoming challenges in fusion energy development.
Heavy-duty and customized shock absorbers, no matter where you are
Manufacturers and industrial applications face a need to diversify their supply lines — but not necessarily their suppliers.
Predicting the service life of rolling bearings
A new method improves predictions of remaining useful lifetime under defect progression.
Tool helps keep office workers safe from COVID-19
Researchers from Cornell University created a tool to help building managers, architects and designers adjust office spaces to a post COVID-19 world.
Smart foam to give robots self-repairing capabilities, sense of touch
Foam is self repairing, mimics human sense of touch.
Video: Addition of electrostatic footpads enable this robot to swerve, pivot
Robot is an enhanced version of a previously designed cockroach-like robot.
A Tactile Internet could one day allow users to reach out and 'touch' each other
For a person to touch something or someone remotely using the Tactile Internet, a user would wear a highly sensitive glove, stylus or other type of tactile device.
Radar beams eyed for networking and localizing moving objects
Passive tags and radar beams could monitor moving objects, people.
Free-standing enclosure offers greater versatility
The stand-alone solution is available in a wide range of sizes and with different material options in carbon steel and stainless steel.
Combination of drones, IoT sensors promises to improve wildfire detection
Network of drones and sensors could improve speed of detection, and thus containment.
First type 2 push-in surge protection
The devices are well-suited for protecting power distribution in subdistribution systems.
Decision support tool fosters irrigation system modernization
The software tool can help assess the costs and benefits of irrigation modernization.